Well, it’s not a landspeeder, but it’ll do.

A Pennsylvania man had this 1974 Corvette airbrushed into a driving Star Wars poster in the late ’70s — and now it’s available on eBay to the highest bidder.

According to the auction, the man — who has since passed away and is not the seller — spent over 1,000 hours on the car.

Below, in italics, you can read the official description of the car from the eBay listing.

This is a 1974 Chevrolet Corvette that was airbrushed in the late 1970’s with the Star Wars theme. A Uniontown(pa) man has created an award-winning automotive version of Star Wars in 1977. Every body panel was hand airbrushed freestyle using many candy apples,pearl, purples, silvers, reds, blues, yellows, and many more. 20 coats of hand rubbed lacquer. The paint has held up very well. There are [...]

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Category: Midsize Premium Sporty Car
Winner: Chevrolet Corvette

1st runner up: Porsche 911
2nd runner up: None

The Chevrolet Corvette beat the Porsche 911 as the most satisfying car in its category in a survey of new car owners released Wednesday.

The 911 took this category last year. The last time the Corvette has topped its category was 10 years ago.

10 most valuable Corvettes

More than 84,000 people who bought a new car within the past 90 days were asked dozens of questions about various aspects of their vehicles in J.D. Power’s latest APEAL study.

Fuel economy, acceleration and audio system quality were among the characteristics that vaulted the Corvette to the top spot.

“Interestingly, storage was also an advantage vs. the competition in this segment — with owners citing more trunk space,” J.D. Power said.
July 22 2015 02:55 PM ET
Original Article: http://money.cnn.com/gallery/autos/2015/07/22/jd-power-apeal-survey-best-loved-cars/index.html

Automotive News
July 20, 2015 – 6:39 am ET — UPDATED: 7/20/15 2:58 pm ET — adds details

DETROIT (Bloomberg) — A simulated city opened Monday on the north campus of the University of Michigan to test how self-driving cars will travel in the future without mowing down pedestrians or causing colossal crashes.

“We had the faculty here at the university design the fully evolved future,” Peter Sweatman, head of the Transportation Research Institute, which oversaw the creation of the M City test facility, said in an interview. “After all, we’re replacing humans with machines and those machines need to be able to operate in a full, rich environment.”

Automakers are racing to develop self-driving cars and overhaul their business models for a world where mobility is being redefined as most of the global population crowds into large megacities during the next two decades. Driverless cars that move in harmony may become essential to [...]